Brief lives
Brookner, Anita, 1928-20162016
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Fay Langdon has relinquished her singing career to marry Owen, a highly successful solicitor. At one of their dinner parties Fay meets the glamorous, self-obsessed Julia and is destined to join the handful of acolytes who provide Julia with ammunition for her merciless scorn and disapprobation. As the years pass and Fay and Julia's lives grow empty of purpose, they are drawn together by their fear of age and isolation. Yet a mutual mistrust continues to exist between them until Fay is driven to one last heroic act.
Main title:
Brief lives / Anita Brookner.
Author:
Brookner, Anita, 1928-2016, author
Work:
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2016.
Collation:
217 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Cape, 1990.
ISBN:
9780241979396 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
BRN:
2389870